Office: | Grand National Assembly of Turkey 28th Term Kocaeli Deputy |
Term Start: | 2023 |
Birth Date: | 1965 |
Party: | Republican People's Party |
Occupation: | Physician, politician |
Mühip Kanko (b. 1965, Hozat, Turkey) is a Turkish physician and politician.[1] He was a Republican People's Party Kocaeli deputy in the 28th term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
He was born in 1965 in Hozat district of Tunceli. He is the grandson of Kankozade Hasan Hayri Bey, who was a Dersim deputy in the first term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.[2] He graduated from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine. He completed his specialization in Cardiovascular Surgery at Bursa Uludağ University. Since 1999, he has worked at Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, Cardiovascular Surgery Department.[3] He received the title of professor in 2014.
In the 2015 general elections, he was a candidate for parliamentary nomination for the Republican People's Party, but did not make the candidate list. In 2016, he served as a member of CHP Kocaeli Provincial Executive Board.
In the 2018 general elections, he ran for Kocaeli 4th place parliamentary candidate; he was not elected to parliament.[4]
In the 2023 general elections, he was nominated for Kocaeli 1st place and entered the 28th term of the Turkish Grand National Assembly as CHP Kocaeli deputy.[5] He served in the Health, Family, Labor and Social Affairs Commission.